COMMON ANOPLOTHERE. 437 



Whilst the evidence of the Anoplotherium in the eocene 

 strata of the Isle of Wight was the single specimen of a 

 molar tooth in the collection of Mr. Allan, some doubts were 

 entertained of the accuracy of its assigned locality. These 

 were, however, entirely dissipated by the subsequent in- 

 teresting memoir on the remains of the Anoplotherium and 

 Palaotherium in the lower freshwater formation of Bin- 

 stead, near Ryde, by S. P. Pratt, Esq., F.G.S.* I have 

 since received many corroborative instances of different 

 species of both these kinds of ancient Pachyderms, from 

 the eocene deposits in Hampshire, of which the teeth 

 figured in cuts 176, 177, and 178, are examples.f 



To the professed naturalist, the following definitions, 

 applied by Cuvier to the extinct Pachyderms of the Paris 

 basin, according to the Linnaean forms in reference to ex- 

 isting animals, must give the most striking evidence of the 

 power of reconstruction of lost species by the application 

 to their fossil remains of the law of organic correlations. 



" Genus ANOPLOTHERIUM. 



Dentes 44. Serie continue,. 

 Primores utrinque 6. 



Laniarii primoribus similes, cseteris non longiores. 

 Molares 28, utrinque 7. Anteriores compressi. 

 Posteriores superiores quadrati, inferiores 

 bilunati. 



Palmse et plantse didactylse, ossibus metacarpi et 

 metatarsi discretis, digitis accessoriis in qui- 

 busdam. 



1. A. commune. Statura Asini minoris, cauda cor- 

 poris longitudine, crassissima, habitu elongate 

 Lutrse. Verisimiliter natatorius. 



* ' Geological Transactions,' 2nd Series, vol. iii. p. 451. 

 f See ' Geological Transactions,' 2nd Series, vol. vi. p. 41. 



